Word: queered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gaypril--the Harvard queer community's pride month--arrived with a flurry of rainbow colors, provocative posters and pink triangles. Most of us will smile and nod at (or ignore) this little bout of activism and visibility and go our merry way. But, as with other waves of activism, Queer Harvard Month presents an opportunity for all members of the community to make a stand for something greater than ourselves--justice...
...hope Noah Oppenheim ("Reading `Clit Notes,"' Opinion, April 3) does not really speak for "many others" when he claims he's for "queer rights" but doesn't want same-sex desire to become too acceptable--purportedly because our society is not ready for this sort of "cultural integration...
...lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people can become "equal" members of society if they are ordered to keep their sexuality private, as Oppenheim would have it. The queer community can never be the "isolated moral and ethical enclave" that Oppenheim wishes it to be because youth from straight families often grow up to realize they are not heterosexual. I am not convinced that these separate queer and "wider" cultures can exist...
Another distortion in Oppenheim's column is the comparison between past movements for racial/gender equity and the current pro-queer movement. Oppenheim inherits the subtler arguments of those who would keep women in the kitchen and blacks at the back of the bus because they felt society was not ready. At one point, America looked unready for gender and racial equality; radical activism changed that. If America looks unready for non-heterosexual orientations to be accepted, it is because we are hopefully in the process of moving towards acceptance...
...Oppenheim thinks those posters are the sole "consciously constructed image that the queer community on campus wants to project," he should read the long list of serious events being scheduled for Queer Harvard Month, listed on posters around campus, and go to some. REBECCA REIDER '00 April...